Albert box



(No Model.)

A. HOX. A MEANS FOR PRBVBNTING GREASING 0F POLDED PLUSH 0R OTHERFABRICS. A No'. 523,528. latented July 24, 1894.

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A UDENEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.v

. ALBERT HOX, OF CREFELD, GERMANY.

MEANS FOR PREVENTING CREASING F FOLDED PLUSH OR OTHER FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,528, dated Iuly 24,1894. Application filed March 2, 1894. Serial No. 502,055. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT I-loX, a subject of the King of Prussia,residing at Crefeld, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Means for Preventing Creasing ofFolded Plush or other Fabrics, of which the following is aspecification.

The methods heretofore practiced of folding plushes, velvets and thelike, have the great objection that pronounced creases are formed in theseveral folds, and particularly is this true of the best and heaviestgrades,

and as these creases cannot always be entirely.

removed a depreciation of the Vvalue of the4 goods results.

The object of my invention is to provide improved devices for preventingthe formation of the creases referred to. e

In carrying out my invention in its preferred form, a rectangular box isprovided for the fabric, which consists of two opposite sides carryingthe fabric-engaging cramps or arms, and having the two ends of the boxhinged to fold down, and such hinged ends are slightly larger than thenormal distance between the sides carrying the arms, and when folded upand pressed between said sides, separate the latter, and the cramps orarms engaging the several folds of the fabric by suitable hooks or pins,place the fabric under some slight tension sufficient to prevent themfrom sagging and from imposing their weight on the' folds beneath. Thusby sustaining independently the weight of each fold, all creasing iseectively prevented and the perfect condition of the fabric ispreserved.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a box embodying my invention, andindicating by dotted lines the hinged sides or ends in the openposition. Fig. 2 is a plan View, the hinged ends being shown open andthe. box cover being omitted. Fig. 3 is an end view (taken at rightangles to Fig. 1). Fig. 4 represents in broken face view and in brokenside view on a. larger scale, the cramp devices or fabricholdng arms;and Fig. 5 is abroken side View of a modification of such devices, whichhereand from each other. The endsv a3, a4, are

hinged tothe bottom a, in anysuitable man ner as at a5, to be foldeddown in longitudinal alignment with the bottom a for giving convenientaccess to the interior of the box, or to be swung upward between thesides a', a2, to complete (with the ordinary cover D) the box inclosure.To the interior surface of the sides a', a2, at or near each end,vertical strips b, are secured and said strips are each provided with avertical series of short parallel arms c preferably round in crosssection,which project from the strips in the direction of the center ofthe box. Each arm c is formed or provided with a spur d or anyequivalent hook, pin or the like, and these pins project longitudinallyfrom the arms c and in a direction toward the adjacent end of the box.

If the fabric is of considerable width, additional engaging arms may beprovided on4 the box intermediate of the end series, and

'inthis case the spurs d of such intermediate arms will projectvertically as in Fig. 5.

The devices, it will be seen, do not appreciably add to the weight ofthe box, which is an important point in transportation, and a vfurtheradvantage is that the arrangement shown enables the folds of the fabricIto be vplaced under tension as described, While the box is in a xedposition.

`It is desirable that the box be maintained and conveyed with the foldsof the fabric ranging in vertical lines, to avoid any tendency of thefolds to sagand press'upon each other. l

In the interior of the box a measuring division may be arranged withadvantage, so

that the length of the stud may be read ott' at once.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- IOO A box for fabrics having near each end sename tothis specification in the presence of ries of arms projecting outwardlyfrom oppotwo subscribing Witnesses. site sides of the box, the arms ofeach series being arranged one above the other, and spurs ALBERT HOX 5on said arms projecting therefrom at right VViinesses:v

angles, substantially as described. IGNAZ HOX,

In testimony whereof I have signed my CARL TERHEGGEN.

